Makoní (Maconi, Macuní) is an
extinct
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Maxakalian language of
Brazil
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.
[Nikulin, Andrey. 2020. ]
Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo
'. Doctoral dissertation, University of Brasília. It is documented in word lists collected in 1816-1818.
[Ramirez, H., Vegini, V., & França, M. C. V. de. (2015)]
Koropó, puri, kamakã e outras línguas do Leste Brasileiro
''LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas'', 15(2), 223 - 277.
Distribution
Makoní was historically spoken in the
Caravelas River area of
Bahia
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, Brazil.
References
Further reading
*Métraux, Alfred and Curt Nimuendajú. 1946. The Mashacalí, Patashó, and Malalí Linguistic Families. In Julian H. Steward (ed.), ''The Marginal Tribes'', 541-545. Smithsonian Institution, Washington: Bureau of American Ethnology.
Maxakalían languages
Extinct languages of South America
Languages of Brazil
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